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    The Prisoner in the Opal
    The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel
    At the Villa Rose
    Ebook series7 titles

    Inspector Hanaud Series

    By A. E. W. Mason

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    About this series

    The plump, middle-aged and ever-optimistic Inspector Gabriel Hanaud features in A.E.W. Mason’s last detective fiction. Set amid the acrid smog of London, a little affair threatens to become a big affair with deadly consequences. This is a classic Hanaud thriller that will not fail to delight crime fans everywhere.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherClassica Libris
    Release dateJan 17, 2019
    The Prisoner in the Opal
    The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel
    At the Villa Rose

    Titles in the series (7)

    • 1

      At the Villa Rose
      At the Villa Rose

      At the Villa Rose

      A. E. W. Mason
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      Filmed three times, At the Villa Rose is Mason and his cunning detective Hanaud at their best. Missing jewels; high adventure some one hundred and fifty kilometres from Geneva; a casino and blind love are all factors in a difficult case for Hanaud, which ultimately involves a gang of frightened murderers.

      Filmed three times, At the Villa Rose is Mason and his cunning detective Hanaud at their best. Missing jewels; high adventure some one hundred and fifty kilometres from Geneva; a casino and blind love are all factors in a difficult case for Hanaud, which ultimately involves a gang of frightened murderers.

    • 4

      The Prisoner in the Opal
      The Prisoner in the Opal

      The Prisoner in the Opal

      A. E. W. Mason
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      The scene is the south of France. An English lady has been murdered and a beautiful American girl has disappeared. Discovered is a body with a severed hand and an opal bracelet somehow connected to devil worship. Clearly a case for Inspector Hanaud or the Sûreté and his English friend Mr. Ricardo. Can Hanaud solve the two mysteries in time to prevent a second murder? Readers will be kept in a constant state of mystification until the surprising denouement.

      The scene is the south of France. An English lady has been murdered and a beautiful American girl has disappeared. Discovered is a body with a severed hand and an opal bracelet somehow connected to devil worship. Clearly a case for Inspector Hanaud or the Sûreté and his English friend Mr. Ricardo. Can Hanaud solve the two mysteries in time to prevent a second murder? Readers will be kept in a constant state of mystification until the surprising denouement.

    • 2

      The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel
      The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel

      The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel

      A. E. W. Mason
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      Book in which we again join Ricardo and Hanaud, this time in an ambiguous situation. A young, wealthy vagabond English man, Calladine, whom Ricardo knew before, hastily comes to Ricardo’s London home in the morning, while Hanaud happens to be visiting. Calladine, very agitated, still dressed formally as for an evening ball, tells his disturbing story… He had gone to a costume party that night in a hotel ballroom, met a beautiful young woman, Joan Carew, with whom he danced, dined, and talked…

      Book in which we again join Ricardo and Hanaud, this time in an ambiguous situation. A young, wealthy vagabond English man, Calladine, whom Ricardo knew before, hastily comes to Ricardo’s London home in the morning, while Hanaud happens to be visiting. Calladine, very agitated, still dressed formally as for an evening ball, tells his disturbing story… He had gone to a costume party that night in a hotel ballroom, met a beautiful young woman, Joan Carew, with whom he danced, dined, and talked…

    • 3

      The House of the Arrow
      The House of the Arrow

      The House of the Arrow

      A. E. W. Mason
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      When Boris Waberski, brother-in-law of the wealthy widow Mrs. Harlowe, attempts to talk her English solicitors into advancing him money on his expectations as her heir, he is ignored. Unknown to Waberski, he has been disinherited in favour of Betty Harlowe, the niece of Mrs. Harlowe’s late husband. But when Mrs. Harlowe dies suddenly and Waberski accuses Betty of murder, junior partner Jim Frobisher is sent to the estate to find out what’s really going on.

      When Boris Waberski, brother-in-law of the wealthy widow Mrs. Harlowe, attempts to talk her English solicitors into advancing him money on his expectations as her heir, he is ignored. Unknown to Waberski, he has been disinherited in favour of Betty Harlowe, the niece of Mrs. Harlowe’s late husband. But when Mrs. Harlowe dies suddenly and Waberski accuses Betty of murder, junior partner Jim Frobisher is sent to the estate to find out what’s really going on.

    • 7

      The House in Lordship Lane
      The House in Lordship Lane

      The House in Lordship Lane

      A. E. W. Mason
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      The plump, middle-aged and ever-optimistic Inspector Gabriel Hanaud features in A.E.W. Mason’s last detective fiction. Set amid the acrid smog of London, a little affair threatens to become a big affair with deadly consequences. This is a classic Hanaud thriller that will not fail to delight crime fans everywhere.

      The plump, middle-aged and ever-optimistic Inspector Gabriel Hanaud features in A.E.W. Mason’s last detective fiction. Set amid the acrid smog of London, a little affair threatens to become a big affair with deadly consequences. This is a classic Hanaud thriller that will not fail to delight crime fans everywhere.

    • 6

      The Ginger King
      The Ginger King

      The Ginger King

      A. E. W. Mason
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      “The Ginger King”, was first printed in the Strand Magazine in 1940, and was never collected in a book form during Mason’s lifetime. A detective Hanaud mystery.

      “The Ginger King”, was first printed in the Strand Magazine in 1940, and was never collected in a book form during Mason’s lifetime. A detective Hanaud mystery.

    • 5

      They Wouldn’t Be Chessmen
      They Wouldn’t Be Chessmen

      They Wouldn’t Be Chessmen

      A. E. W. Mason
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      Nahendra Nao, heir to the Maharajah of Chitipur, unwisely lets Elsie Marsh of the Casino de Paris wear his ancestral pearls, which react badly to her skin. In order to restore their lustre his secretary, Major Scott Carruthers, hires a beautiful, down-on-her-luck opera singer, Lydia Flight, to wear them while they heal. They take a houseboat on the Seine near Caudebec-en-Caux, and while there make the acquaintance of Julius Ricardo. When the pearls are stolen Ricardo teams up with his old friend Inspector Gabriel Hanaud to solve the mystery.

      Nahendra Nao, heir to the Maharajah of Chitipur, unwisely lets Elsie Marsh of the Casino de Paris wear his ancestral pearls, which react badly to her skin. In order to restore their lustre his secretary, Major Scott Carruthers, hires a beautiful, down-on-her-luck opera singer, Lydia Flight, to wear them while they heal. They take a houseboat on the Seine near Caudebec-en-Caux, and while there make the acquaintance of Julius Ricardo. When the pearls are stolen Ricardo teams up with his old friend Inspector Gabriel Hanaud to solve the mystery.

    Author

    A. E. W. Mason

    Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (1865–1948), otherwise known as A.E.W. Mason, is the author of A Romance of Wastdale, published in 1895. He is the author of more than twenty books, among them The Four Feathers, originally published in London in 1905 and now a 2002 major motion picture, starring Kate Hudson, Heath Ledger, and Wes Bentley. 

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